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	UN emergency relief chief warns over fallout of U.S. Yemen Houthi terror label
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	Four UN peacekeepers killed, five wounded in attack in Mali
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	Countries urged to speed up climate change preparation to protect against shocks
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News in Brief 14 January 2021

In this week’s show, we’re covering UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet’s appeal for an end to violence in Myanmar, a call by the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization to boost the <a href="https://www.un.org/coronavirus" target="_blank">COVID-19</a> vaccine rollout to developing countries, and a new tragedy involving human traffickers and migrants sailing from Djibouti to Yemen. We’ll hear about the plight of detainees in Syria’s prisons and detention centres 10 years since the civil war began - and international efforts to get them out, in an interview with UN-appointed independent rights investigator Hanny Megally.
With Daniel Johnson and Solange Behoteguy-Cortes from UN Geneva.

Podcast - UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Myanmar crisis, 10 years of war in Syria

<ul><li>Mental health alert for 330 million kids in COVID lockdown: <a href="https://www.unicef.org/" target="_blank">UNICEF</a></li>
<li>Suspicion of Muslims at epidemic proportions, <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Human Rights Council</a> hears</li>
<li>Migrants drown after being forced into the sea off Djibouti: <a href="https://www.iom.int/" target="_blank">IOM</a> </li>
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News in Brief 4 March 2021

There are reports that the police used tear gas and gunfire to break up the protesters.  The UN human rights chief has demanded the military government stop murdering and jailing protesters. Also: Hong Kong has been excluded from an annual league table of the world's most free economies, and we hear how poetry is helping one doctor cope with the coronavirus pandemic.

Global News Podcast

Myanmar: Opponents of the coup continue to demonstrate

Israel rejects the court's investigation, while the Palestinians praise it. Also: S Korea's first transgender soldier is found dead, and the vultures threatened by poison in Kenya.

ICC 'war crimes' inquiry in West Bank and Gaza

After 10 years of war in Syria, there are likely tens of thousands of detainees across the country, held by the Government and opposition groups – a traumatic waiting game for the families unsure of their fate. 
In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, rights investigator Hanny Megally from the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, explains what steps the international community is taking to try to resolve the situation – and what obstacles it still faces.

Traumatic waiting game for Syrians unsure of the fate of detained loved ones

At least 9 people killed in confrontations between security forces and demonstrators.  One teenager is reported to be among the dead.  Also, BBC investigation finds evidence that members of China's Uighur minority are being uprooted from their homeland, and country superstar Dolly Parton reworks one of her best-known songs to encourage Americans to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

Myanmar: Further deadly clashes despite appeals for calm

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	<a href="https://www.un.org/coronavirus" target="_blank">COVID-19</a> crisis forced more than 168 million children to miss class in 2020 
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	Condemnation over targeted killing of three women journalists in Afghanistan 
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	Nigeria: Children traumatised by abduction need urgent rehabilitation, say UN experts 
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News in Brief 14 January 2021

UN emergency relief chief warns over fallout of U.S. Yemen Houthi terror label Four UN peacekeepers killed, five wounded in attack in Mali Countries urged to speed up climate change preparation to protect against shocks

UN emergency relief chief warns over fallout of U.S. Yemen Houthi terror label

Four UN peacekeepers killed, five wounded in attack in Mali

Countries urged to speed up climate change preparation to protect against shocks